Voyaging through greenland's ice world

Silver Explorer expeditions blend adventure and luxury, enabling passengers to discover nature's extremes while enjoying opulence on board. Mike Peters tests the waters.

We are floating on top of a frozen margarita.

That's how our shipboard naturalist John Fonseca describes the slushy ice that the Silver Explorer is plowing through as we enter Greenland's Prince Christian Sound, named after a long-ago Danish royal who became King Christian VIII. In the distance, the water surface is a smooth sheet of dark-green jade under the overcast sky.